Above: "Do Not Expect Too Much For The End of the World" (My favorite film of the year.)
(in the order that I saw them; unless dated it was a 2024 release)
Undercover Girl (1950)
Timebomb Y2K
Onlookers
Edward Hopper (PBS)
Napoleon (2023)
The Disappearance of Shere Hite (2023)
The Curse (Season 1)
True Detective (Season 4)
Next Goal Wins (2023)
June (2023)
The Dark Knight Rises (2012)
Batman Begins (2005)
The Dark Knight (2008)
Ferrari (2023)
Fallen Leaves (2023)
Madame...
Here are brief reviews of some of my favorite films from this month's DOC NYC festival.
"My Sweet Land" is a briskly paced, beautifully edited portrait of an 11-year-old Nagorno-Karabakh Armenian boy caught with his family in the series of wars against Azerbaijan which have greatly reduced the land that was once part of Armenia. The boy is remarkably positive given the circumstances and follows...
“RIALTO AT 25” is a celebration of the 25th anniversary of Rialto Pictures, a distributor whose re-releases of international classics have been distinguished by...
(above: Sam Harkness in “Sam Now”)
My critical output has been hampered recently by my paying gigs and personal writing projects so here are capsule...
(above: Kristine Kujath Thorp in "Sick of Myself")
Boston’s Underground Film Festival continues until March 26 and I’ve been able to catch four excellent features...
The 2022 horror film “Attachment” (premiering February 9 on the Shudder streaming service) takes its name from “dybbuk,” a term from Jewish mythology describing...